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It is so little true that martyrs offer any support to the truth of a cause that I am inclined to deny that any martyr has ever had anything to do with the truth at all.

It is so little true that martyrs offer any support to the truth of a cause that I am inclined to deny that any martyr has ever had anything to do with the truth at all.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Truth, Support, Littles
Friedrich Nietzsche (2011). “The Antichrist (上帝之死)”, p.540, Hyweb Technology Co. Ltd.

What are man's truths ultimately? Merely his irrefutable errors.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Truth, Knowledge, Men
Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.219, Vintage

It is not when it is dangerous to tell the truth that its advocates are hardest to find, but when it is boring.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Truth, Boring, Dangerous

Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Art, Nature, Truth
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1909). “The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche: The birth of tragedy”

So long as the priest, that professional negator, slanderer and poisoner of life, is regarded as a superior type of human being, there cannot be any answer to the question: What is Truth?

Friedrich Nietzsche
Truth, Long, Religion

And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Happiness, Laughter, Truth
Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.198, Penguin

The unselective knowledge drive resembles the indiscriminate sexual drive--signs of vulgarity!

Friedrich Nietzsche
Truth, Knowledge, Vulgarity
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1979). “Philosophy and truth: selections from Nietzsche's notebooks of the early 1870's”, Humanities Pr

The will to truth is merely the longing for a stable world.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Truth, World, Longing
Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

The more abstract the truth you wish to teach, the more must you allure the senses to it.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Truth, History, Wish
"Writings of Nietzsche: Volume 1".

On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Meaningful, Perseverance, Truth

The reasons for which 'this' world has been characterized as 'apparent' are the very reasons which indicate its reality; any other kind of reality is absolutely indemonstrable.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Truth, Knowledge, Reality
Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Twilight of the Idols”, p.31, Friedrich Nietzsche

It is terrible to die of thirst in the ocean. Do you have to salt your truth so heavily that it does not even-quench thirst any more?

Friedrich Nietzsche
Truth, Ocean, Doe
Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.271, Modern Library

Probability but no truth, facility but no freedom--it is owing to these two fruits that the tree of knowledge cannot be confused with the tree of life.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Truth, Freedom, Confused

No one dies of fatal truths nowadays: there are too many antidotes.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Truth, Knowledge, Antidote
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1984). “Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.238, U of Nebraska Press

Antithesis is the narrow gateway through which error most prefers to worm its way towards truth.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Truth, Errors, Way

The mouth may lie, alright, but the face it makes nonetheless tells the truth.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Truth, Lying, Mouths

Over immense periods of time the intellect produced nothing but errors. A few of these proved to be useful and helped to preserve the species: those who hit upon or inherited these had better luck in their struggle for themselves and their progeny. Such erroneous articles of faith... include the following: that there are things, substances, bodies; that a thing is what it appears to be; that our will is free; that what is good for me is also good in itself.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Truth, Struggle, Knowledge
Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.169, Vintage

We have arranged for ourselves a world in which we can live - by positing bodies, lines, planes, causes and effects, motion and rest, form and content; without these articles of faith nobody could now endure life. But that does not prove them. Life is no argument. The conditions of life might include error.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Truth, Knowledge, Errors
Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.177, Vintage

Linguistic danger to spiritual freedom.- Every word is a prejudice.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Spiritual, Truth, Knowledge
Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). “Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.323, Cambridge University Press

Could truth perhaps be a woman who has reasons for not permitting her reasons to be seen? Could her name perhaps be--to speak Greek--Baubo?... Oh, those Greeks! They understood how to live: to do that it is necessary to stop bravely at the surface, the fold, the skin, to adore the appearance, to believe in forms, in tones, in words, in the whole Olympus of appearance! Those Greeks were superficial--out of profundity!

Friedrich Nietzsche
Truth, Believe, Names

Metaphysical world.- It is true, there could be a metaphysical world; the absolute possibility of it is hardly to be disputed. We behold all things through the human head and cannot cut off this head; while the question nonetheless remains what of the world would still be there if one had cut it off.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Truth, Knowledge, Cutting
Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). “Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.15, Cambridge University Press

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